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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Flathub has passed 2 billion downloads (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Most of the issue is that they're unreliable. Sometimes the app will work. Sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes you have to fiddle blindly with flatseal settings, which ones? Who knows? Guessing is part of the fun.

It'd be a great thing if it just worked.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In over 3 years of daily flatpak use (of multiple apps) I've never had a single reliability issue with flatpak, the only ones being caused by me because I was trying out settings in flatseal that the app didn't like. On the flip side I've found native packages to be broken more often than not, with .Deb files sometimes just not working and throwing an error or something. Package managers are better for sure but I've had dependency issues that I have never experienced with flatpak.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Good for you for not having any problems mate! I'm sure this invalidates the parent poster's problems.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I guess mileage varies here because flatpaks have always just worked for me. I only use flatseal to revoke excessive permissions.